Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 1. (Budapest, 1973)

FERENCZY, László: Japanese inro in the Hopp Museum. Part two

26a sides is connected. A court carriage (gosho-guruma) on one side in gold makie work, with some silver takamakie, red lacquer, gold yakigane and koban. On the top and walls of the carriage fine karakusa design. The shafts of the carriage extend to the other side, which is decorated with kiku and hagi branches and autumn flowers. On the lid and bottom as well as around the carriage gold kirigane and okibirame. Signature: Seki Naotaka. 8.1X5.9 cm. The decoration is prepared with meticulous care on the finely polished ground. The representation refers in all probability to the Genji monogatari and it might have been taken from the motifs of the Tosa school. An early 19th century inro of the Victoria and Albert Museum is decorated in a similar way with the representation of a court carriage. The shafts extend also here towards the flowers but the ground of the inrô is red.

1 30. Inrô in the form of a kinchaku. Two cases. Internal channels, hidden not only in the sides but also in the bottom of the inrô (Fig. 30). Inside very fine orange nashiji. The upper case is divided into three compartments. On both sides rocks in gold hira- and takamakie with wavy waters in the foreground on rö-iro-nuri ground. The fence beside the rocks is inlaid in yellow metal sheets (taka-zogan). Beyond flowery branches with kiku, narcissus and other flowers inlaid and carved of red coral and porcelain. On the rocks okibirame. 118